Gray Robert Brown

But do you remember when we went to the Schubert Archive in New York and there was all that stuff about rationing the shoes for the play version?

That's a great episode, the New York episode, which is in your feeds now, if you want to check it out, Swing and Christie's feed.

But yeah, so we're in a period of post-war consensus, right?

Or maybe a lack thereof, the kind of scars of...

violence and war and terror, fears about funding and infrastructure and how we rebuild the world are rife.

It's a fascinating period, basically.

I can see why you wanted to spend a bit more time there.

This is maybe a pet theory that will evolve through the episode.

I think that The Rose and the Yew Tree...

published in 48, is Agatha's personal wrangling with the 1945 electoral loss of Winston Churchill.

So we've had the war consensus cabinet, the cross-party consensus, we've had a period of leadership from Churchill,

And despite popularity in many ways, the country does not vote for Churchill to carry on.

And the book is quite interesting on this topic.

And actually, Gillian Gill is quite interesting on this topic as well.

You know, you sent me her book.

Agatha Christie, The Woman and Her Mysteries, I wanted to say.

Definitely.

She's really interesting on the Westmacots.

We've referred to her and we'll carry on referring to her on Westmacot.

But yes, she says a 1945 German election was a turning point in modern British history.